Railway car for carrying freight such as coal or the like

Details Railway car for carrying freight such as coal or the like Railway car for carrying freight such as coal or the like

1986-07-02

1988-07-05

Reeves, Robert B.

Railway rolling stock

Special car bodies

Freight

105404, 105418, B61D 300, B61D 700, B61F 100

Patent

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047547103

ABSTRACT:
A railway car having an optimum length of 500 feet comprising two end walls, two side walls and a floor forming one continuous trough. The trough being supported at each end wall by wheel-containing truck means and at an intermittent section by a plurality of wheel containing truck means. The side walls consist of a plurality of side panels. The side panels are provided with overlapping means to permit relative motion between adjacent panels for maneuvering curves and hills. The floor includes a plurality of laterally and longitudinally extending slope sheets. The laterally extending slope sheets are provided with overlapping means to allow relative motion therebetween. A flexible center sill extends continuously the entire length of the railway car.

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A Short Course in Corrosion, Edited by I. Cornet, "Metal Coatings", by A. Mendizza, p. 44, held at the Univ. of California at Berkeley, Feb. 2-6, 1953.
D. E. Newland et al., "Fundamental Design Considerations for Multi-Wheeled Flexible Railway Vehicles", ASME publication, Oct. 1970, 16 pages.

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